Some Interesting Factoids About Offensive Pass Interference

The Lions have started reverting back to their old ways and refs have relied on that to call their games. If a Lions player “looked” like he committed a penalty, then by god he did. If both the defender and the receiver go for the ball and it “looked” like it could’ve gone either way, then the Lions must’ve just committed another penalty. That’s the way it goes for a perennial failure like the Detroit Lions.

The more you win, the better the calls are for your team and less flags are thrown. It’s kinda like when rich celebrities get free stuff even though they have millions of dollars anyways, people want to help you more when you are successful. It’s the same in football, the refs want to help the winning teams even though they might not need the help.

The season isn’t over and we could still end up 10-6 with the #6 seed. We got 4 games to go so let’s try to focus on that and not the stupid refs like we do every year.

Good job digging up the info. It is very interesting (and pisses me off) haha.

But on the other hand, sometimes when a player commits a penalty, a ref will keep watching to see if the player will do it again.

Stupid refs.

once he talked up how he needed to extend his arms to get the call. On the next one there was no arm extension so he said, look he touched his back and the DB reacted to it.

There is watching for a guy to pull a move again and there is seeing it when it is not there. We have enough trouble with making mistakes without the refs doing this kind of stuff.

We all know they were getting Jobbed in this game but its nice to see some stats to actually back it up.

that kind of stuff happens on almost every play. Yeah we made some other stupid penalties but come on. If a defender is allowed to place his hands on the receiver while “playing the ball” I feel like the same should apply to the offense. I just can’t get over the one penalty, can’t remember if it was a OPI or not, but when the head ref was laughing as he was about to make the call. For some reason that one just stands out.

Good research and nice write up.

I hope the ref who called the penalties [nice to know if it was the same guy every time] will review the tapes to see if he indeed made the right call. I saw one PI out of the three. Although even that one was pretty much what you see on every pass play. I wish the refs would use that same standard for the guys who are mugging covering Calvin.

FYI, Titus Young WR [third string, part time WR] leads all WRs in penalties with seven. I have a really tough time with that number of penalties. Just for comparison, Calvin Johnson WR [first string and all the time WR] has zero penalties this year. None. Nada.

I think the Receivers coach and Linehan and Schwartz need to have a discussion with Mr. Young. I like Titus and think he can be an outstanding WR in the NFL, but he needs to get his act together.

Thanks to Kevin Seifert of ESPN [LINK: http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcnorth/post/_/id/35464/free-head-exam-detroit-lions-29 ]

2.The Lions’ mistakes Sunday night weren’t just of aggression. They were of technique as well. Reasonable people can debate the merits of the first offensive pass interference penalty against receiver Nate Burleson. But after a call like that is made, Burleson needed to adjust to ensure that he didn’t give officials a chance to make it again. Instead, Burleson was whistled two more times and negated a total of 67 passing yards. In records dating back to the start of the 2011, ESPN Stats & Information couldn’t find a prior instance of a player receiving three offensive pass interference penalties in one game.

My highlight.

…if it looks like a fish, smells like a fish, its probably a fish.

The stupid penalty’s were just plain BAD…but the other ones are just plain rediclious!!!

The Saints looked like they were talking to the NFL about penalty’s.

Silver lining…9 and 7 might get us in, we can play with anyone, we still control our destiny, players can learn from this, the NFL probably owes us one, Fairley is legit, we were missing a bunch of guys and still did good (minus penaltys)….and Stafford is only 23, and will be a top 5 QB in the next year.

The NFL refs are as undisciplined as the lions….fact

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forget all 3 of them. Good teams who championships are unaffected by yellow flags. Those flags do not determine the outcome of the game for them. We need to win regardless of being “cheated” by the ref’s.

As a side note: A Ref went out with an ankle injury and they had to call the game short-handed…WTF with that?

thats what the NFL wants.

They want popular teams like GB/NO with pretty boy super stars to continue to be good and teams like Detroit to continue to be unpopular.

Watching the last two Detroit Lions games has made that painfully obvious.

But it was Burleson, a veteran who apparently has either played a dirty WR his entire career or had the worst game of his career. Special thanks to NBC for not showing good replays of his penalties and instead just destroying the guy.

WTF was with the replay of the FG attempt before halftime? It looked like the dude jumped offsides early, but the only replay they showed was field view behind the Lions. Was the blocker offsides or not?

what happened when SLH sacked and stripped Brees? Sammie held up the ball and the ref just ripped it out of Sammies hands. I was pretty sure I saw the loose ball as they were going to the ground.

felt uncomfortable with the closeup live shots of Stafford calling plays in the huddle? I mean theirs a reason the Offensive Coordinator covers his mouth when calling in plays. I saw it at least twice.

they won’t get the calls on the ticky tack stuff

In defense of the officating (LOL I kno) Burleson definitely pushed off on the first and last. I thought the second was BS. Those calls call for BS, though, because the flag comes out following the reception, not necessarily the OPI.

And whats even more funny, most often when OPI occurs and Collinsworth is calling a game he habitually says, “Now that is just a veteran wideout move.”

Obviously the NFL would rather have the saints win. We had so calls go against us. Obviously the NFL would rather have the packers win. Did you see that Jennings touchdown? Never had possession. No CJ rule on that one. Also a Giants reciever made a catch in the endzone they ruled an incompletion. Looked good to me he had a knee down anyway.

Obviously the NFL would rather have the Bears win then the chiefs. Did you see that hold in the endzone on the bears? 4 yards deep but they said it happened at the 1 yard line. Not even close and the Ref was right there.

I guess what gets me is I can let a few penalties go here or there. Nobody is perfect and the people who say the Lions bring it on themselves are right. To a point. But when I see huge questionable calls in three consecutive games all of which it could seriously affect the outcome… I just can’t help but wonder.

Eye opening posts in here. The SLH sack/strip, I didn’t see that but I will take everyone’s word for it here. The offsides, all of it makes me sick to my stomach. The Jennings TD vs the CJ didnt complete the process catch. Phantom PI calls on the defensive side of the ball. etc etc Yes Brees and Rodgers on national tv but I can’t see how there is not more outcry over this? Is it because we dont want to look like little whiny losers who should shut their mouth? That is always the reply from trolls on different boards when we bring these issues up. Something needs to happen to these NFL officials to rip the bias they hold against some teams from them so they can call a fair, clean game. Its sick that the officials can affect the outcome of games like this. Its sick that the commentators just keep their mouth shut. Its sick that if you call out the officials you get fined for it, like hey you cant talk bad about the officials, they need to be protected because they are dudes who are upset because they didnt have the talent to play pro ball. Yes, I know we should just shut up and focus on this weeks game. Its against the viking so we will see how this plays out and how the penalties are called.